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CROSSWORD - JANUARY 27, 2023

The Week

SUDOKU - JANUARY 27, 2023

The Week

CROSSWORD - JANUARY 27, 2023

The Week

SUDOKU - JANUARY 27, 2023

The Week

CROSSWORD - JANUARY 27, 2023

This week's question: Males and females of a species of gibbon native to Southeast Asia have been observed singing duets in order to solidify social bonds. Come up with the title of a song that would suit the talents of these musically inclined apes.

A horse jumping through a bonfire, a rescue operation, and more

Approximately 7 million people are under storm watch in the Northeast U.S. as snowstorms from the Midwest move east. The snow began Friday morning in Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Maine, reports CNN.

Alec Baldwin is facing involuntary manslaughter charges in connection with the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was killed on the set of his film Rust after a gun he was holding accidentally went off. Baldwin has denied responsibility for the shooting, and his attorney says the charges represent a "terrible miscarriage of justice." So are prosecutors justified in charging Baldwin, or did they overreach? Here's what legal experts, those in the film industry, and more are saying about the decision... Читать дальше...

Wireless carrier T-Mobile revealed Friday that 37 million users' data was stolen in a breach in November. In a filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the company revealed that the breach was discovered in early January, but "the malicious activity appears to be fully contained at this time."

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Not even a full month in, 2023 is already shaping up to be a strong year for horror. January alone delivered a new horror icon, an acclaimed pandemic-themed slasher, and a low-budget experimental film that has all of TikTok sleeping with the lights on.

The federal government hit the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling this week, forcing the Treasury Department to resort to what Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said were "extraordinary measures" necessary for the government to continue paying its bills. But the measures, which include suspending investments for some government accounts, will only buy about five months. As early as June, the Treasury Department will run out of ways to cover some of the government's obligations to bondholders, Social Security recipients... Читать дальше...

As a child raised in the pressure cooker of a high-profile political family, it seems, in retrospect at least, inevitable that Sarah Huckabee Sanders would eventually follow in her father's footsteps and enter the political limelight herself — first as the most visible staffer in the Trump administration outside of the president himself, and now as the newly elected governor of Arkansas, occupying the same position her father Mike Huckabee held nearly 15 years prior. 

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on Thursday that union membership rates dropped to just 10.1 percent of the overall job market in 2022, marking a historic low in the overall share of union membership in the broader national job market. While 2022's record low percentage comes at the tail end of a decades-long decline in union membership rates from its peak of 20.1 percent in 1983 — the first year the government began calculating labor membership data — the BLS notes that the number of... Читать дальше...

A federal judge in Florida on Thursday ordered former President Donald Trump and his lawyer Alina Habba to pay $938,000 in sanctions to 31 defendants in a lawsuit they filed last year alleging a vast conspiracy against Trump in the 2016 presidential election. U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks had thrown out the lawsuit in September then fined Habba $50,000 to pay the legal fees of one of the defendants, Charles Dolan. This nearly $1 million penalty will be divided among the other defendants... Читать дальше...

David Crosby, the singer, songwriter, and guitarist who was a founding member of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills & Nash, has died. He was 81.

The Supreme Court announced on Thursday it has not been able to figure out who leaked to Politico last May the draft opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade.

The Biden administration unveiled a new program on Thursday that will allow American citizens to sponsor refugees, CNN reports. The new program, named the "Welcome Corps," was called "the boldest innovation in refugee resettlement in four decades," by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.